David Oshinsky Explained

David Oshinsky
Nationality:	American
Education:	Cornell (1965) Brandeis University (1971)
Occupation:	Historian, academic

David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian. He is the director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine^[1] and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.^[2]

Background

Oshinsky graduated from Cornell in 1965 and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University in 1971. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, . Oshinsky’s most recent book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, was published in 2016.^[3] His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning , and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He previously held the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austinand prior to that he was a professor of history at Rutgers University New Brunswick.

Bibliography

Books

• Book: Oshinsky , David M. . Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement . University of Missouri Press . 1976 . 0-8262-0188-1.
• Book: Oshinsky , David M. . A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy . The Free Press . New York . 1983 . 0-02-923490-5 .
• Book: Oshinsky, David M. . Horn, Daniel . McCormic, Richard Patrick . The Case of the Nazi Professor . registration . Rutgers University Press . 1989 . 0-8135-1427-4 .
• Book: Oshinsky , David M. . "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow . Free Press . 1997 . 0-684-83095-7 .
• Book: Ayers, Edward L. . Gould. Lewis L. . Oshinsky, David M. . Soderlund, Jean R. . American Passages: A History of the American People, Volume I . Wadsworth Publishing Company . 1999 . 0-03-072573-9.
• Book: Ayers, Edward L. . Gould. Lewis L. . Oshinsky, David M. . Soderlund, Jean R. . American Passages: A History of the American People, Volume II . Wadsworth Publishing Company . 1999 . 0-03-072574-7.
• Book: Oshinsky , David M. . Polio: An American Story . Oxford University Press, USA . 2005 . 0-19-515294-8 . registration .
• Book: Oshinsky , David M. . A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy . Oxford University Press . 2005 . 1983 . 0-19-515424-X .
• Book: Oshinsky , David M. . Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America . 2010 .
• Book: Oshinsky , David M. . Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital . 2016 . Doubleday . 978-0385523363.

Selected articles

• News: David M. . Oshinsky . The Senior G-Man David M. Oshinsky is a professor of history at Rutgers University and the author of "A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy." . Shortly after his election victory in 1968, Richard Nixon made a most traditional move. Following the lead of every incoming President since Franklin D. Roosevelt, he ordered an adviser, John Ehrlichman, to establish immediate White House contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. . The New York Times . September 15, 1991 . 2008-04-16 .
• News: Oshinsky . David M. . Heil Woodrow! . Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists, Vietnam War supporters were fascists, policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists, on and on. ... . The New York Times . December 30, 2007.
• News: Oshinsky . David M. . In the Heart of the Heart of Conspiracy . No American politician of the 20th century is more reviled by historians and opinion makers than Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican whose 1950s anti-Communist crusade is synonymous with witch-hunting and repression. ... . The New York Times . January 27, 2008.

See also

• Jim Crow laws

External links

• David M. Oshinsky, Professor Emeritus, UT–Austin

Notes and References

1. Web site: David M. Oshinsky, PhD. NYU School of Medicine. July 5, 2017.
2. News: bio line in review of Democracy's Keeper. Oshinsky. David M.. The New York Times Book Review. July 13, 2008. 2010-05-01.
3. Book: Oshinsky, David M.. Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital. 1944. 9780385523363. First . New York. 951830070.